Brain357
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Except....there are other cities with looser gun laws that don't have D.Cs gun violence.....and they can buy guns in those cities...they don't have to drive out of state, the gun stores are,right there........
Which is why local gun laws are kind of useless.
We need a NATIONAL GUN law. More importantly, we need to disabuse ourselves of this notion that gun ownership is a "right" because 200 years ago, a bunch of slave rapists couldn't write a militia amendment coherently.
A country where Jared Loughner and James Holmes have a "right" to a gun is insane.
Yeah....France, Belgium, Sweden, Norway, and Denmark all have national gun laws....in France, you can't even buy a gun at a gun store let alone fully automatic military rifles, hand grenades and pistols and a rocket propelled grenade.....and 3 terrorists, two of whom were on a government terrorist watch list and one of whom was a convcited criminal....got all of that and crossed an international border 2 times to do it...
And it isn't just terrorists......the same week as the cartoonist murder, masked gunmen with fully automatic military rifles shot up a neighborhood in Marseilles, France just before the Prime Minister was going to give a speech about crime......
Gun laws do not stop criminals from getting guns.........they only stop law abiding citizens from getting them...and law abiding citizens aren't the ones racking up 8-9,000 gun murders a year in our inner cities........
Background checks, magazine limits, weapon bans, and registration do not stop criminals.......catching criminals using guns to commit crimes, or catching convicted criminals in mere possession of guns and locking them all up is how you stop and reduce gun crirme....nothing else works.....
Gun tragedies in those countries probably wouldn't even make the news here. What is very rare there is common here.